Britain’s booming offshore wind industry urgently needs more grid capacity. Just like Australia, locals are resisting the rollout of wires and pylons.
| Christine Murton runs a civil engineering business with her husband from her home near the village of Roydon, in the eastern English county of Norfolk. But something other than work has been preoccupying her lately.
The campaigners are supported by district and regional councils in East Anglia, several of which are no longer Tory strongholds after recent electoral wins by the Green Party. All insist that they are not opposed to net-zero agenda, and are not NIMBYs.“We are always accused of being NIMBYs. But we’re not, we are NOBYs – these pylons should be in nobody’s backyard,” Lazell says.Hans van Leeuwen
“The offshore wind industry has grown far more quickly than anyone envisaged – in a way, it has been a victim of its own success,” says Barnaby Wharton, director of future electricity systems at industry group RenewableUK. RenewableUK’s Wharton says the offshore option would be “phenomenally complicated” and would create a critical delay. This is because wind farm developers have 10-year leases over the seabed, and they need certainty over the transmission infrastructure within that period.“Nobody is worried that once you build an offshore wind farm you won’t be able to get energy into the grid. It’s a question of when you will be able to do it – that’s a major risk,” he says.
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